He made a bunch of fine recordings and had good taste in steel players (Jerry Byrd and Buddy Emmons, among others).

Here's a pic with Elvis, taken in Sikeston Missouri on March 9, 1955--Jimmy standing between Bob Neal and Onie Wheeler. He was also on the bill with Elvis the next day in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Godfrey Arthur

From:Philippines

Posted 26 Dec 2018 6:47 pm

Godspeed Jimmy Work.

Your song Making Believe made the rounds on the recording circuit from the original Kitty Wells, to Dolly, Conway and Loretta, Emmylou, Bob Dylan, Willie, Ray Charles, Connie Francis, Merle, up from the Boondocks Billy Joe Royal and a punk rock version by Social Distortion.

Got to know Work's wonderful recording "Bluegrass Tickling My Feet" while researching some of Jerry Byrd's late 1940s/early 1950s recordings a few years back. As I think it turned out, Byrd was NOT at the April 1949 session that produced that song; I see from Pragugefrank's Country Music Discographies online that Byrd did play on Work's subsequent session (in August 1949), and also at one of Work's 1953 sessions (playing bass!).

I also see Work didn't crack the country until 1955, so "Bluegrass Tickling My Feet" was never a hit, but it should have been.

Anthony Lis

From:South Dakota, USA

Posted 1 Jan 2019 10:14 pm

Got to know Work's wonderful recording "Bluegrass Tickling My Feet" while researching some of Jerry Byrd's late 1940s/early 1950s recordings a few years back. As I think it turned out, Byrd was NOT at the April 1949 session that produced that song; I see from Pragugefrank's Country Music Discographies that Byrd did play on Work's subsequent session (in August 1949), and also at one of Work's 1953 sessions (playing bass!).

I see Work didn't crack the country until 1955, so "Bluegrass Tickling My Feet" was never a hit, but it should have been.